Disclaimer- I don't and probably never will own Naruto or One piece.

Kakuzu was never one for heroics, in fact he believed those that did were foolish and naïve. When he was a child, young and innocent he looked up to the ninja of their village, believing that they were heroes.

But then he grew up and saw the world in a different perspective

Ninja were not heroes, sure there were some shinobi that had the same respect as a hero would get and regarded as a 'hero' but Kakuzu knew that in the profession of shinobi was not in any shape or form a heroic profession.

Those that believed that tended to die rather quickly.

He himself went up the shinobi ranks quickly despite his age; the elders and ninja considering him a prodigy that would make takigakure proud.

But then it all changed

By the he was an adult the kage decided to make him an elite Jounin one of the highest honors and ranks there was at the time and assigned him a S-class mission that would decide his fate.

Kill the first Hokage

At the time he was arrogant, he was powerful but not that powerful

There was a reason the first Hokage was considered the best and he earned that reputation from power alone.

Kakuzu barley escaped with his life, injured and running from konoha nin as he made his way back to his home village. Surely they would understand that to kill a kage never mind trying to kill Hashirama Senju was a large feat.

When he got back to the village the response was one he would never forget. They hated him, said that he didn't try and because of that he had betrayed the village. Chaining him as if he were a simple traitor, it didn't matter that he risked his very life for the village.

The next day he was in a cell, hopeless, desperate and alone. His home village had betrayed him not him and he loathed them, hated them and wanted to burn the village to the ground.

That was when he heard it

The dark bricks that made up the walls around his cell started to shake getting louder as time went on. The noise suddenly stopped for just a second before thick threats shot out of the wall stabbing his lower abdomen as the thread went through his body as if searching for something, not minding the pain it was inflicting.

He felt something clutch his heart in a vice like grip before the thread wrapped around the organ, his body exploding into another fit of pain. His vision started to blacken as his eyes slowly closed, Kakuzu could feel the thread around heard constrict, just vividly see more threads ram into his body before it went dark, falling unconscious.

When he awoke he thought the experience was a dream or a nightmare considering the amount of pain. That was until the guard entered the room, sneering at him as he removed the Anbu mask.

He recognized that man, one of the few people that he actually considered a friend and comrade despite the occupation he held.

Anger sore through his veins and Kakuzu felt a small ache under his skin but dismissed it as he looked back at the man. Rage filled him when he saw the look of disgust that was aimed at him, realizing that Kakuzu was looking at him his ex-comrade and teammate's pale blue eyes met his and a small smirk appeared on the corner of his mouth.

Kakuzu lost it as complete rage filled him. This man was one of the higher ups so he knew the impossible mission Kakuzu was assigned, yet looked down on him as if he were scum.

He'd worked out what the village had done straight away. He was too powerful for them, making the rank of elite joinin at 17 was exceptional for a clan less Ninja like him so they decided to assign him a mission that would kill him for sure.

They never expected him to return

He barely noticed the sound of painful screaming that echoed around the room, or the metal clash as the cage that held him ripped apart.

His old teammate now lay lifeless and mutilated in front of him and the black tendril that he remembered from the dream slowly crept back in to his skin, blood of the man dripping from the ends.

So this was the legendary Kinjutsu of takigakure. The Jiongu was a prized item that the waterfall village had never been able to use.

And he had it

A dark smirk lit up the man's face as he walked out of the steel door that caged him

He was gone the next day, leaving half of takigakure's ninja population dead and taking the hearts of the village elders.

He later made a living off his other hobby, money. Making a living out of hunting down other missing nin, earring himself a steady income.

He believed that money made the world go round and believed in that logic, even hell ran on money. So he put his talents to use, killing and earning money for over a century.

Until Akasuki came calling

Kakuzu only agreed to join them because of the amount of money they offered. And that partnership was good until they said he needed a permanent partner, since all of the people Kakuzu had been partners with hadn't lasted more than a month.

That is, until they teamed him up with Hidan

Hidan actually broke his record for how long his partner would stay alive before he killed them, lasting an entire hour before getting stabbed in the back quite literally from his Jiongu.

Of course he remembered the shocked feeling he felt when the supposed dead Hidan started laughing and ranting about his God before standing up and cursing at the shocked man.

It was the perfect partnership, at least for the Akasuki. But Akasuki weren't the ones that had to spend most of their time with a fanatic maniac.

Still, he supposed Hidan had his uses.

Kakuzu wondered why he was thinking about Hidan of all people while he was on the verge of death. Dying was a strange thing he concluded, it was something he had never tried. Not that he was scared of death No, he was merely curious.

For someone that had lived over 100 years he knew that death was not avoidable the only thing you could do was to delay it and hope for the best.

"I guess your life really does flash before your eyes when you're about to die" he thought as the avoidable Jutsu the blond teen made hit him full on, ripping his skin as the deadly chakra burned and ripped him apart.

AN- I had this story idea in my head for days so i decided to write it out. I also happen to love Hidan's personality even though he's a insane murderer. so anyway i plan to make this story go on for as long as possible and for it to have lots of chapters even if i do run out of ideas.

please Review and post your ideas for how the story should go since i will probably run out of ideas by the eighth chapter.

thanks for reading